Purpose: Silly puddy has long captivated
the minds and imagination of millions with its countless attributes. Among
these includes its ability to easily be shaped yet is able to bounce, its
ability to transfer comic book images onto itself and many others. This
week Scientific AmeriKen will examine a different attribute of silly puddy --
its ability to cover and contain a blast from an M-90.

Hypothesis: Due to silly puddy's elastic
qualities it is hypothesized that the puddy will not be able to completely
contain the blast. Weak areas of the puddy covering will stretch from the
force of the blast and thus direct the force in that direction, however,
should remain generally intact from the blast.

Equipment: Needed for this experiment
include M-90's, silly puddy, and matches.

Procedure: The first step is to set a
control m-90. This is done by exploding the m-90 and observing direction
of force and general aspects about the explosion. The next step is
to completely cover an m-90 with silly puddy. When this is complete, light
the m-90, observe, and compare.

Results:

Test

Observations

Images

Regular M-90

As see
on the picture on the right, explosion took place in all directions. To
view the actual explosion, click on the image.

Silly puddy M-90

In this
explosion, the silly puddy was able to contain the forces on the sides,
however explosion took place on the top of the M-90. To view actual explosion
click on image. It is also noted
that upon further investigation it appeared that the puddy covering the
top of the m-90 was missing and had cleanly seperated from the puddy on
the m-90.

Conclusion: The results seem to support
the hypothesis, although the silly puddy did not 'stretch' to allow explosive
energy to escape. The silly puddy did exhibit some ability to contain
the explosion, and thus may be used to direct the force of explosion.
If this is the case, then further experimentation should be performed which
would place weakened areas of silly puddy to see if the explosion can be
directed into those areas. In all, this experiment is just one in
millions which demonstrate the wonderful abilities of silly puddy.